Bratislava was more liberal than Prague. Dubček‘s images were still all over the place in 1971.
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Jaroslav Kraus was born in Kladno on 20 June 1951 to parents Marie Krausová and Jaroslav Kraus. The family lived in Nové Strašecí. Marie Krausová was a stay at home mother and the father worked as the Lány railway station master (the station was renamed Stochov in the socialist era). The family was religious and disagreed with the regime. Jaroslav Kraus completed high school in 1969. He entered the Faculty of Pharmacy in Bratislava to study chemistry and prepare for a pharmacist job. He received his doctorate in 1978. He then started working for the Pharmacy Services Prague. From the late 1970s until 2015 he worked at Adam‘s Pharmacy on Wenceslas Square. He socialised with dissidents and read samizdat. He worked his way up to the pharmacy manager position. In 1989, he was a member of the revolutionary committee and took part in the strike. In 1999, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy with a degree in art history and opened an antiquarian bookshop with his wife after retirement. In 2025 he lived in Prague.
